It happened! We finally had our wedding celebration on June 12, 2021. After getting so close last year, having Covid ruin it all, and then dealing with my mom's cancer all throughout the pandemic, it was really nice to come together and actually celebrate with family and friends. We eloped on our original date May 30, 2020 but it always felt incomplete. I really struggled with not being able to have the wedding we had worked so hard to plan. While our postponed wedding celebration could never completely fill the void Covid created, I can finally say I feel some closure now.
The day went really well - we had perfect weather, no bugs, just enough guests, and our vendors all performed nearly flawlessly (shout out to Mayfair Farm, Vera Flora Farm, Solare Wedding Photography, Blue Ribbon DJ Services, DeeLuxe Bartending, and Elegant Settings, all based in NH). It went so fast though. I wish I could have been a guest at our own wedding (instead of constantly getting pulled in so many directions), I wish I had danced and drank more, I wish more of my close friends had come and that the emotions felt more raw and real instead of numbed from all of the stress and pain of the past year. But it was so nice for our celebration to be the first time so many people came together in over a year, without masks or social distancing, and have it feel normal and safe. Many people I didn't expect stepped up to support me and came together to celebrate us and make us feel loved. It all finally came together, and even though it feels like something got lost in the shuffle and our wedding day will never be what it could have been, it was still pretty special. Mostly, I am relieved that it is over! At the end of the day, no matter how we got here, I am married to the most kind, generous, and perfectly imperfect man that I have ever known and that's a wonderful thing.
